The socially-distanced cast includes Michael Keane (Dennis), David Kirkbride (Robert), Ellie Morris (Sandra), Blayar Benn (Trevor), Ross Green (Chris), Ciara Morris (Annie), Milo Clarke (Max) and Elan James (Jonathan). This review is from the West End premiere of 'The Play That Goes Wrong' in 2014. Still, there are laughs to be had here, and the production is a technical triumph: ensuring that props and sets collapse on cue, without actually injuring anyone, is a genuine feat of stage management. But the trouble is that anyone who has seen, and loved, ‘Noises Off’, is likely to find the comparison unfavourable: Frayn’s play simply does all the same things, and does them better. This is, to be fair, acknowledged by the play’s marketing, which calls it - correctly - ‘“Fawlty Towers” meets “Noises Off”’. The show sits in a fine tradition of British slapstick, and of plays about theatrical blunders: its debt to Michael Frayn’s hilarious ‘Noises Off’, about the gradual disintegration of a touring rep production, is considerable.

Upon arrival at the box office, please present your booking confirmation barcode to the Ticketing Desk (adjacent to the front doors. Start time: 2 pm to 7 pm (entry times may vary per day). This booking is only valid for your selected date/time option. And that, indeed, is the case, as the production shudders painfully into chaos, taking in everything from dropped lines to disintegrating sets, intra-cast fighting, technical malfunctions of the highest order, and an unexpectedly resuscitated corpse. Read our latest Time Out theatre reviews and find out what our London theatre team made of the citys new plays, musicals and theatre shows. This is valid for a ticket to David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away). From the first moment, in which a hapless stage manager attempts to secure a collapsing mantelpiece, we suspect that things are not going to go to plan. Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are mounting a production of a hoary old sub-‘Mousetrap’ mystery called ‘The Murder at Haversham Manor’. It’s got a relentlessly catchy build and momentum, a crackling, edge-of-seat sense of drama, and is absolutely chockablock with information, as the key players stride on to bring us up to speed. The show is a farcical play-within-a-play. Amid all the chatter about the overbearing West End dominance of jukebox musicals and film spin-offs, it’s cheering to see a dynamic young company land slap-bang in the middle of Theatreland. Produced by LAMDA graduates Mischief Theatre, the show has had successful runs at the Old Red Lion in Islington, Trafalgar Studios, and in Edinburgh now it's made it all the way to the West End. This comedy has, of course, actually done everything right.

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